THOM BROWNE“I think it’s so chic to get smashed and end up on the floor in your three-piece suit.”Photographed by Marcelo Krasilcic, issue no. 1

THE DANCERAnder Zabala, Photographed by Heinz Peter Knes, issue no. 1

AMANDA LEAR“My ambition is to pay the rent and to paint and sing and act. And to sometimes be able to walk into the PRADA store and buy myself a nice new handbag.”Photographed by Andreas Larsson, issue no. 2

GILES DEACON“I've been wearing glasses since I was about five.”Photographed by Viviane Sassen, issue no. 2

SPARKS“We are inspired by the mediocrity of everything else in pop music.”Photographed by Todd Cole, issue no. 2

WIM CROUWEL
“Design was so interesting and full of spirit in 1928, the year of my birth.”
Photographed by Viviane Sassen in the Rietveld Schröder House in Utrecht, issue no. 3

ANDRÉ BALAZS“In my childhood I wanted to be a sculptor. Part of the attraction was the ability to create something out of nothing, but one of the things I found frustrating was working in a vocabularly that very, very few people understood.”Photographed by Terry Richardson, issue no. 5

CHRISTOPH WALTZ“I can’t run about every day thinking that I have two Oscars.”Photographed by Alasdair McLellan, issue no. 20

XAVIER DOLAN: “I start on a subject and start yakking and never finish.”Photographed by Benjamin Alexander Huseby, issue no. 20

KARL KOLBITZ PHOTOGRAPHED BY LIZ COLLINS, ISSUE NO. 20

TEN YEARS IN PRINT
Remarkable but true: FANTASTIC MAN has provided a whole decade of entertainment and excitement in magazine form. Throughout its anniversary year and beyond, the original style journal for men will continue to redefine the genre.

N° 20starring on the coverfeaturing WIM CROUWEL on page 158,as well as the following...CHRISTOPH WALTZ

Autumn and Winter 2014 ... 262 pages

The moustachioed figure on the cover of the 20th edition of FANTASTIC MAN is the Austrian actor and double Oscar winner CHRISTOPH WALTZ. Inside, the star of INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS and BIG EYES discusses the advantages of being a late bloomer. A trio of very impressive Canadians is profiled: the fashion commerce chronicler IMRAN AMED, the author and artist DOUGLAS COUPLAND and the phenomenal French-language cinematographer XAVIER DOLAN. An extensive guide to the season’s WINTER COATS is presented on the back of the amazing model KARL KOLBITZ, GIORGIO ARMANI contributes a tip for cold-weather dressing, and writer PAUL FLYNN reminisces about his formative years spent in the thrall of JOHN TIFFANY, now the toast of all Broadway. Those yearning for a cherished but DISCONTINUED PERFUME may find solace in a nostalgic reportage entitled “EXTINCT”, whereas the photographic series “PILL” examines the miracle of modern pain relief, and the ten-page “MEN WHO DELIVER” feature proposes fabulously utilitarian fashions. Also, a telephonic discussion is enjoyed with hairstyling legend CHRISTIAAN, and a hilarious yet poignant set of postcards composed by the late performer LEIGH BOWERY is kindly shared by KIM JONES.

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Pictured above is a delectable spread of enlightening printed matter from the same stable as FANTASTIC MAN. From left to right: THE GENTLEWOMAN is our cherished sister publication, of course. Produced from the heart of fashionable London, it carries exquisite style suggestions as well as conversation and writing contributed by the world’s most amazing women. That vision in pink is FOREVER BUTT, the new hard-backed compendium for TASCHEN of the best and baddest bits of BUTT, our celebrated magazine for homosexuals. COS magazine is a chic cultural biannual produced for the retailer of the same name, featuring insightful interviews with luminaries from the worlds of art, design and technology. Next: two collaborations with the book publisher PENGUIN. From 2013, BUTTONED-UP is a book exploring the fashions of East London. THE HAPPY READER is a bookish quarterly devoted to the pleasures of devouring the written word. The debut issue is out now.

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Sometimes, the foxiest fashions are best appreciated in motion. Seen above, 2010’s SUPER SHOW is a spectacular menswear catwalk extravaganza staged in a secret location in front of an audience of zero. For SPINS, which won the prize for Best Artistic Direction at the A SHADED VIEW OF FASHION FILM festival, professional men of the ice rink perform incredible athletic manoeuvres in slow-motion, dressed, of course, in the latest skin-tight styles. ROTATION is a dazzling compendium of startling modern dance to herald the arrival of DIOR HOMME’s Autumn & Winter 2013 collection. Please enjoy them all.

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B&W WEEKTHE SUPER GRAPHIC SHIRT

08.10.2012 – A variety of entirely monochrome options graces the DAILY RECOMMENDATIONS this week, just because. We are beginning with this cotton button-up shirt by COMME DES GARÇONS HOMME PLUS. Where most haberdashers would arrange the black and white stripes in a uniform direction, clever COMME has arranged the yolk’s stripes at an acute angle to those of the body. The shirt screams to be worn “buttoned-up”, without a tie, for further graphic rigour.